She Cracked Leprosy at 24, Died at 24 — and a Man Took the Credit for Her “Ball Method”
She solved a problem that had defeated medicine, she did it in her early twenties, and she was gone before she could even publish it. Alice Augusta Ball, a chemist from Seattle, created the first effective leprosy treatment — and then watched from beyond the grave, in a manner of speaking, as another man put
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